Amazon Web Services and Rackspace are warning their customers of upcoming reboots they’re taking to address a new Xen hypervisor security issue.
In a premium support bulletin issued Thursday night, Amazon said fewer than 10 percent of all EC2 instances will require work but the affected instances must be updated by March 10. [company]Rackspace[/company] also notified customers of the issue, which will affect a subset of a portion of its First and Next Generation Cloud Servers, Thursday night
If you’re sensing a little bit of deja vu, it’s because the major cloud players were forced to reboot a bunch of their customers in September due to a Xen hypervisor issue, although the reason for the updates was not disclosed at first. Last time out, AWS also said 10 percent of its EC2 instances were affected.
Cloud vendors impacted by these security issues tread a tricky path. They have to address the vulnerability as fast as possible…
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